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Pumping-Beauty Now, Pay Dearly For It Later

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One of the issues I don’t talk about enough is the prevalence of pumping amongst POC transwomen. It’s a subject that is guaranteed to start a vigorous discussion amongst us because the trans women who have resorted to it get defensive about pumping when we talk about the people who weren’t so lucky. Talking about the risks of pumping is not by extension those of us broaching the subject engaging in making moral judgments about their choice to do whatever they wish with their bodies. While its a major issue amongst POC transwomen, our cis sisters are also getting pumped too and paying the price. In February 20 year old college student Claudia Aderotimi flew across the Pond from London along with two friends to Philadelphia to get butt enhancement via silicone injections. She and her friends had done some treatments before with no complications but on this trip something

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Community significance

“Pumping-Beauty Now, Pay Dearly For It Later” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “Pumping-Beauty Now, Pay Dearly For It Later” provides dated evidence of how education and youth was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to education and youth and healthcare and medicine, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Themes

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    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    100%
  2. 2
    Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    53%
  3. 3
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    42%
  4. 4
    Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    16%

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Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Education and youth to Healthcare and medicine: Overlapping sibling theme
Healthcare and medicine
Education and youth to Religion and morality: Separate but related
Religion and morality
Education and youth to Violence, safety, and dehumanization: Separate but related
Violence, safety, and dehumanization
Education and youthRank 1
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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